my 2 cents on the helical antennae is they seem to detune a lot less and seem to be better at multipath/reflection rejection. This is only from using devices with the two types of antennae. For instance, if I put the ceramic antenna on my iron radiator in my room at the window, the position bounces around a lot, and up to 50m, but using a helical antenna, it is more stable, and less variable. Of course the underlying chipsets also have something to do with this.

seems the clips and the software are the biggest selling points for this analyzer, I was considering the new analyzer by link instruments (http://www.linkinstruments.com/mso19.htm) but now can’t decide!

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